WILD GALES
LASHING BRITISH COASTS LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS MAROONED. DELAYED RELIEF FOR SICK AND INJURED MEN. By Telegraph—Press /association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1 p.m.) LONDON, December 16. Only one of four emergency calls during the last twenty-four hours, to aid sick and injured lighthouse keepers who were marooned, could be answered, because of gales lashing the western and northern coasts. Sixty attempts to take off Principal Keeper Jordain from Eddystone failed, but Keeper Huxtable of the South Bishop Light was lowered to a ship by a rope from the light gallery, after four days’ unsuccessful contact with the shore by lamp signals. Other messages were received from the Longships Light, off Land’s End, on which the keeper is ill, and from Muckle Flugga, off Uist, on which a keeper is injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1938, Page 8
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130WILD GALES Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1938, Page 8
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